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Ep. 928: Foundations - The Secret to Good Treestand Setups · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide
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  Speaker 1: to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, presented by first Light,
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  Speaker 1: creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind.
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  Speaker 1: First Light, Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host
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  Speaker 1: Tony Peterson.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast,
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  Speaker 2: which has brought to you by first Light. I'm your host,
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  Speaker 2: Tony Peterson, and this episode is all about trees, you know,
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  Speaker 2: learning how to read them and how that can help
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  Speaker 2: you become a better deer hunter because you have better setups.
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  Speaker 2: This one is one of those topics that sounds boring
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  Speaker 2: as hell, but I'll tell you something.
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  Speaker 3: It's important.
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  Speaker 2: I spend a stupid amount of time looking up at trees,
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  Speaker 2: eyeballing them, thinking about if I could get a stand
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  Speaker 2: in them, and if I do, where and how I'll
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  Speaker 2: set up. Now, this is relevant to summer stand hanging missions,
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  Speaker 2: of course, but also throughout the rest of the season,
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  Speaker 2: and it's absolutely necessary if you want to be a
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  Speaker 2: mobile hunter at all. Now, I promise to try to
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  Speaker 2: make this less boring than it sounds, and I promise
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  Speaker 2: you that if you give it a listen and you
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  Speaker 2: start to take it seriously, you will become a better
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  Speaker 2: whitetail hunter.
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  Speaker 3: So buckle up, because it's time to talk about trees.
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  Speaker 2: There are roughly about seventy thousand different species of trees
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  Speaker 2: on our planet. At least those are the ones that
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  Speaker 2: have been identified and cataloged anyway, They obviously vary by
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  Speaker 2: size and shape and a whole lot of other features
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  Speaker 2: by species, and can be small, little tiny guys like
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  Speaker 2: the Bonzai tree, or giants like those redwoods out on
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  Speaker 2: the West coast. Throughout our history, trees have played a
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  Speaker 2: significant role in our cultures and our religions, and it's
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  Speaker 2: not surprising why from a practical perspective, a hell of
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  Speaker 2: a lot of trees give us some sort of food,
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  Speaker 2: and to break that down further, a lot of those
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  Speaker 2: food sources like apples. We're probably one hell of a
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  Speaker 2: seasonal here today, gone tomorrow type of tree for us,
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  Speaker 2: just like they are for deer. Trees are also a
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  Speaker 2: great place to take refuge, you know, and when something
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  Speaker 2: big and toothy is considering you for breakfast, as long
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  Speaker 2: as that's something that's big and toothy, is an also
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  Speaker 2: adept at climbing trees. Trees are pretty good at showing
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  Speaker 2: you where there's water in the ground or water flowing
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  Speaker 2: above the ground too. It's not hard to imagine crossing
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  Speaker 2: the prairies, you know, a couple hundred years ago anyway,
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  Speaker 2: and being awfully parched, only to spot a sparse line
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  Speaker 2: of cottonwoods in the distance. To you and I, that
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  Speaker 2: might mean a good place to go look for some deer.
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  Speaker 2: To someone making a foray into new territory, that might
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  Speaker 2: mean the difference between life and death. This is practically
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  Speaker 2: true and also something that has been true for a
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  Speaker 2: long long time. Many mythologies contain trees to which people
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  Speaker 2: of that time attach sacred meaning. Deciduous trees, for example,
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  Speaker 2: seem to die in the winter along with most plants,
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  Speaker 2: but not some conifers. Greens, being well ever, green, don't
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  Speaker 2: show the same life and death cycle and have long
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  Speaker 2: been associated with the eternal or immortality, or is the
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  Speaker 2: case in many cultures fertility. We have a weird affinity
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  Speaker 2: toward trees, but maybe it's not that weird.
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  Speaker 3: As a species.
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  Speaker 2: We've used them for our benefit for a long time,
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  Speaker 2: and today, when you drive through a lot of places
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  Speaker 2: that are dominated by grassland and egg you'll still see
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  Speaker 2: carefully sculpted groves of trees around homesteads. We like the
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  Speaker 2: privacy trees offer, and the wind break benefits, and the shade,
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  Speaker 2: and well a lot of.
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  Speaker 3: Stuff about them.
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  Speaker 2: As whitetail hunters, we think about trees a lot, but
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  Speaker 2: often only in one specific direction. What kind of food
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  Speaker 2: will they produce for deer? And what does that mean
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  Speaker 2: to our hunting strategy? Where are the white oaks or
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  Speaker 2: the persimon trees? We plant trees for the deer specifically,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll tell you that one of the first things
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  Speaker 2: I did, oh I've done every time I've bought deer ground,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, is to go out and plant some apple trees.
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  Speaker 2: Have yet to kill a single deer from that effort,
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  Speaker 2: but I really like having apple trees around anyway.
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  Speaker 3: We think about trees as betting cover too.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty hard to deny that old growth, big canopy
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  Speaker 2: trees don't really allow for much understory, which means that
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  Speaker 2: they might be passed through spots in most places, but
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  Speaker 2: aren't likely to host a bunch of sleepy bucks in
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  Speaker 2: any given day. But a four year old clearcut that's
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  Speaker 2: full of saplings, that's a different story, And there's food
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  Speaker 2: in there too, but the cover provides a huge advantage
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  Speaker 2: to pray animals looking to take a snooze in safety.
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  Speaker 2: When you think about deer hunting, at least scouting deer,
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  Speaker 2: you're almost always thinking about trees in a variety of ways.
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  Speaker 2: But what I really want to focus on here is
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  Speaker 2: the reality of setting up in trees and how to
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  Speaker 2: think about that, because that's a skill that seems pretty easy,
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  Speaker 2: but it's often not. And the reason it's not is
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  Speaker 2: because we usually default to a good stand tree and
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  Speaker 2: sacrifice something in the process. So what makes a good
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  Speaker 2: stand tree to most people, Well, it should be perfectly
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  Speaker 2: straight trunk wise and have almost no branches below the
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  Speaker 2: preferred stand height. With this kind of tree, you have
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  Speaker 2: to do minimum amount of work to set it up.
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  Speaker 2: It can accommodate a saddle or a hang on. It
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  Speaker 2: can work just fine with a double ladder stand doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: This type of tree is easy, and because of that,
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  Speaker 2: it's the kind we look for the most.
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  Speaker 3: But easy isn't always the best route.
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  Speaker 2: And while it's always nice to find a good tree
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  Speaker 2: in a spot you really want to hunt, that kind
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  Speaker 2: of tree can cause you problems.
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  Speaker 3: I deal with this a lot.
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  Speaker 2: In some of the public land I hunt in northern Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 2: there are some trees there, due mostly to the forestry
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  Speaker 2: practices that are just ideal for.
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  Speaker 3: Any type of setup.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, that's one of the places I still occasionally
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  Speaker 2: use a climber stand, just because the trees are so
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  Speaker 2: conducive to it. But I also get busted a lot
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  Speaker 2: over there. There's nothing to break up my outline. And
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  Speaker 2: I know this is crazy, but when there are scattered
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  Speaker 2: trees like that throughout the woods, I feel like the
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  Speaker 2: deer is just quicker to notice a two hundred pound
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  Speaker 2: blob hanging off the side. I almost always have to
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  Speaker 2: set up directly behind the trunk and actively have to
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  Speaker 2: hide myself from the deer. I almost always get busted anyway,
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  Speaker 2: at least in some of those trees. Now, you might
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  Speaker 2: hunt somewhere else that has less pressure or deer that
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  Speaker 2: just don't get hunted as much from stands, and you
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  Speaker 2: might get away with this type of setup all season long.
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  Speaker 3: I do. Out West.
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  Speaker 2: There are a lot of cotton woods out there that
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  Speaker 2: I've killed western white tails from that have very little
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  Speaker 2: cover for me, and it doesn't seem to matter. But
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  Speaker 2: the farther east I go, the rules seem to change.
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  Speaker 2: This is an issue in a lot of places and
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  Speaker 2: can be a real pain in the ass down south
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  Speaker 2: where the hunting pressure is high. So the ideal stand
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  Speaker 2: tree isn't always so ideal after all. But the less
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  Speaker 2: than ideal stand trees also come with a lot of problems.
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  Speaker 2: I like trees that have some branches and some cover
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  Speaker 2: to work with, but not so much that I have
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  Speaker 2: to spend more time sawing limbs than setting up. Now,
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  Speaker 2: of course that's a private land deal. On a lot
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  Speaker 2: of public land, that's a no go oh, So you
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  Speaker 2: have to write off multi limb trees right from the jump.
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  Speaker 2: This is tough in a lot of situations, but a
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  Speaker 2: real pain in the ass where you're primarily working with
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  Speaker 2: some types of pine trees. Now, some of the pine
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  Speaker 2: tree plantations will offer up a million pine trees that
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  Speaker 2: are all perfect for stands, but they usually offer the
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  Speaker 2: deer very little. But a lot of pines are different,
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  Speaker 2: and some of them are amazing for stands. Some will
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  Speaker 2: have a band of limbs at intervals, and in between
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  Speaker 2: those you'll have a nice section of bear trunk to
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  Speaker 2: work with, which is ideal, not only do you have
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  Speaker 2: some limbs to work with on your way up, but
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  Speaker 2: you also have cover above and below you that's going
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  Speaker 2: to stick around all season long, dream scenario stuff. The
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  Speaker 2: downside of this is if you set up in pine
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  Speaker 2: trees at all and have done any level of tripping,
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  Speaker 2: you know what the SAP situation can be.
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  Speaker 3: Like.
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  Speaker 2: I run into this a lot in my neck of
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  Speaker 2: the woods because pine trees often offer the best cover,
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  Speaker 2: and they often exist in places where there are like
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  Speaker 2: little grassland, meadows and general staging area type of habitat.
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  Speaker 2: But dealing with that SAP can really suck, and that's
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  Speaker 2: just the nature of the beast.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't figured out a good way to.
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  Speaker 2: Combat that yet, so sometimes I just resigned myself to it.
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  Speaker 2: Resigning yourself to certain trees is the name of the game. Honestly.
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  Speaker 2: If you watched the Rough Cuts episode I shot with
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  Speaker 2: Steve in Oklahoma a few years ago, you'll see me
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  Speaker 2: set up right in the beginning of the show on
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  Speaker 2: a pond that has a bunch of per Simon trees
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  Speaker 2: around it. Those trees were tiny, but it was the
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  Speaker 2: best we could do in that setup. In fact, those
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  Speaker 2: trees were so small I had to saddle up in
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  Speaker 2: one and put my cameramen in a saddle in a
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  Speaker 2: different one. Two people in any one of those trees,
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  Speaker 2: especially as wendy as it was, would have been a
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  Speaker 2: recipe for disaster.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes you just have to.
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  Speaker 2: Make a small, not ideal tree work and then cross
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  Speaker 2: your fingers that the first tear to come in is
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  Speaker 2: the one you want to shoot, because it's a high
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  Speaker 2: odds proposition that you'll get caught. But you can also
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  Speaker 2: hunt areas bucks love if you're open to small trees,
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  Speaker 2: and some of the cattail bucks in prairie pothole bucks
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  Speaker 2: and bucks that just don't have big groves of trees
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  Speaker 2: as an option, can be killed in tiny trees while
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  Speaker 2: you're only slightly above their eye line. In fact, I
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  Speaker 2: think a setup, you know, whether you're talking a saddle
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  Speaker 2: or a small hang on, that is conducive to tiny
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  Speaker 2: trees is one of the best things you can own
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  Speaker 2: if you want to kill big bucks. The options for
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  Speaker 2: where you can hunt just expand exponentially with one setup
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  Speaker 2: like this, and you sure can learn a lot. Being
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  Speaker 2: eight feet up and overlooking a swamp or a slew
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  Speaker 2: where most hunters won't enter and certainly won't spend time
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  Speaker 2: observing from any level of an aerial position. The other
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  Speaker 2: side of the coin are the big trees that aren't
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  Speaker 2: all that easy to set up in either. If you
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  Speaker 2: check out the show that just dropped of my twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four North Dakota hunt, you'll see me with on
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  Speaker 2: a really good deer. The tree that I shot at
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  Speaker 2: that deer from was in the right spot, but it
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  Speaker 2: was way too big for the straps on my climbing sticks.
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  Speaker 2: My camera man who's a good hunter, and I had
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  Speaker 2: to get creative there because we did have extra straps
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  Speaker 2: and we didn't need all of the sticks I brought
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  Speaker 2: to get to stand height. So that perfect spot with
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  Speaker 2: the two big tree suddenly became huntable by doubling down
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  Speaker 2: on our straps. Look, it's not ideal, and I have
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  Speaker 2: to say this if you ever go this route or
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  Speaker 2: even consider it, think about your safety First. Gravity is undefeated,
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  Speaker 2: and if you're not one hundred percent sure you can
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  Speaker 2: pull it off safely, keep looking for a better tree.
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  Speaker 3: Now, there are a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of other considerations when you're eyeballing trees to decide
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  Speaker 2: if you can set up in them. To me, the
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  Speaker 2: most important is having about four to six feet of
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  Speaker 2: straight trunk to work with at some height where I
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  Speaker 2: think I won't get busted.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: That's my criteria most of the time, and it's often
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  Speaker 2: very difficult to find. But if you set up enough
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  Speaker 2: stands or spend enough time mobile hunting, you start to
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  Speaker 2: develop an eye for this sort of thing, and when
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  Speaker 2: you do, you'll kill more big bucks. This is because
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  Speaker 2: it'll allow you to work more spots better instead of
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  Speaker 2: finding the right tree and then hoping the spot is
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  Speaker 2: good enough. That was the downfall of the climbing stand thing.
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  Speaker 2: For the most part, in my opinion. Aside from very
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  Speaker 2: specific situations, you mostly spent time looking for a tree
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  Speaker 2: that would work instead of scouting sign and set up
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  Speaker 2: where the deer want to be. But even the best
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  Speaker 2: mobile setups won't always work, which is why you have
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  Speaker 2: to look at a tree and decide how to get
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  Speaker 2: in it where your stand or saddle platform will go,
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  Speaker 2: and then keep an open mind. I generally try to
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  Speaker 2: climb up the backside of the tree, or to put
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  Speaker 2: it a different way, decide I don't expect a deer
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  Speaker 2: to come from when I get to the spot where
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  Speaker 2: I intend to actually set up. I try to face
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  Speaker 2: my stand almost entirely away from the likeliest approach position,
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  Speaker 2: but still give myself like maybe twenty five degree ease
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  Speaker 2: in their direction, so that as a right handed shooter,
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  Speaker 2: I can either stay seated and shoot around the trunk,
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  Speaker 2: or I can stand up and shoot around it, all
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  Speaker 2: while keeping that tree trunk in between me and the deer.
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  Speaker 2: I do this almost as a rule no matter where
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  Speaker 2: I'm hunting, even on field edges where the poll to
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  Speaker 2: set up facing right out toward the groceries is high.
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  Speaker 2: This is something that provides an advantage in the moment
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  Speaker 2: of truth when you have deer close, which seems obvious,
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  Speaker 2: but it's also a hedge for future hunts. The less
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  Speaker 2: I get busted in a tree, the better. So if
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of dos come out and they are cagy,
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  Speaker 2: I have a better chance of not blowing out the field.
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  Speaker 2: If they have to look through the tree trunk to
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  Speaker 2: see most of me, they can't do it, and that
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  Speaker 2: helps preserve natural movement in my spots. This is almost
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  Speaker 2: the opposite of the typical ladder stand strategy. I also
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  Speaker 2: like having some cover to break up my outline, which
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  Speaker 2: again is a no brainer but what does that really mean. Well,
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  Speaker 2: any cover around your setup that can break up your
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  Speaker 2: line is good cover, but a lot of it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: really matter. What I really like is cover at my
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  Speaker 2: exact level that extends behind me if possible. We tend
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  Speaker 2: to think that leafy limbs in front of us are
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  Speaker 2: the answer, and they can help for sure, but having
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  Speaker 2: some good stuff behind you is huge. It'll break up
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  Speaker 2: your outline and allow you to get away with more movement,
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  Speaker 2: especially if you're dealing with a little bit of wind.
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  Speaker 2: You want the deer to be able to look up
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  Speaker 2: at you and just not recognize a human shape.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, it's that simple.
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  Speaker 2: A good way to think about this is that forty
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  Speaker 2: years ago you could just get into a tree and
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  Speaker 2: that was enough.
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  Speaker 3: Most of the time.
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  Speaker 2: The deer just weren't as conditioned to look up for danger,
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  Speaker 2: But in so many places that we hunt them at,
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  Speaker 2: they just are. Now you still have to hide from
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  Speaker 2: them somehow, even if you're seventeen or eighteen feet up.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you don't have to, but you'll be better off
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  Speaker 3: if you do.
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  Speaker 2: The caveat here is that sometimes you just have to
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  Speaker 2: hunt what the land will give you, and at least
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  Speaker 2: when you do, you generally have the element of surprise.
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  Speaker 2: I can't prove this, but it sure feels like in
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  Speaker 2: some types of cover deer ore prone to looking up,
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  Speaker 2: while in other areas they just aren't. It makes sense
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  Speaker 2: in my head anyway, because when they're in the woods,
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  Speaker 2: they're in an area where if they encounter a human hunter,
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  Speaker 2: he's very likely to be in a tree. But in
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  Speaker 2: that marshland or swamp land, it's a different story. It's
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  Speaker 2: also true that being in an elevated position just gives
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  Speaker 2: you enough advantages that it's worth trying, even if the
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  Speaker 2: setup is really rough and it feels like you're not
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  Speaker 2: going to get away with it. You only need them
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  Speaker 2: to slip up once. And I'm a huge believer that
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  Speaker 2: trying stuff that has low odds but is in a
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  Speaker 2: high odd spot that's almost always worth it. We often don't, though,
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  Speaker 2: and that's why we default to our favorite ladder stands
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  Speaker 2: and box blinds and the usual suspects. But learning to
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  Speaker 2: make the available trees work is a huge advantage, and
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  Speaker 2: you can do it on your home farm where you
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  Speaker 2: really feel like you already have very little reason to
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  Speaker 2: color outside the lines in this way. In fact, I
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  Speaker 2: think some of these situations where we have our go
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  Speaker 2: to year over year setups, they're some of the best
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  Speaker 2: ones for us to try to read some new trees
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  Speaker 2: in new spots and see what we can do with
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  Speaker 2: them to show the deer we are in as one dimensional.
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  Speaker 3: As they think.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's not as exciting as talking about snort
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  Speaker 2: wheezing in pre rut bucks, but learning how to look
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  Speaker 2: at the trees in your region and figure out how
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  Speaker 2: to hunt them where you want to hunt is a
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  Speaker 2: skill that is so useful, and since it is a skill,
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  Speaker 2: it takes practice. Think about this when you're starting to
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  Speaker 2: get the itch this summer to scout or to go
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  Speaker 2: out and hang some stands. Do you have a random
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  Speaker 2: pond that you always wanted to hunt on your lease,
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  Speaker 2: but you think the trees around it are too small.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you got a fence lign with some scrubby trees
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  Speaker 2: that the bucks always run. Maybe you have one of
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  Speaker 2: those monster trees that survive the axes and chainsaws for
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  Speaker 2: whatever reason, just sits in the middle of the field,
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  Speaker 2: but every time you hunt on the other edge, the
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  Speaker 2: deer just walk by it and feed under it and
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  Speaker 2: generally mill around it. Take a closer life, consider what
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  Speaker 2: options you might have to set up there. You know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it's not an easy ladderstand type of setup, but
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  Speaker 2: maybe you could get a hang on in there with
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  Speaker 2: a little ingenuity. And if you do, you can almost
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: always bet the bucks won't have a clue you're there
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: the first time they show up when you're hunting them.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: At least give it some thought and come back next
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: week because I'm going to talk about summer ranges and
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: fall ranges and buck excursions and all the movement they
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: do and what it means to you as you're scouting
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: this time of year. That's it for this week. I'm
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Tony Peterson. This has been the Wire to Hunt Foundations podcast,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: which is brought to you by First Light. As always,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: thank you so much for listening for all your support.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Truly truly appreciate it. You might notice we have a
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: new show here running a limited series with Jake Hoffer
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: about the land and habitat and all that cool stuff
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: that Mark and I try to cover, but we maybe
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: don't get into as much detail as Jake's going to
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: really good show.
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  Speaker 3: Check it out.
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• 17:04
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  Speaker 3: New articles, new recipes.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: There's a couple of uh, you know, word games on there.
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• 17:16
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• 17:21
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• 17:25
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